Master II Livello TPAI

Master II livello pianificazione, architettura, arte

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Synopsis

The TPAI - Territorial Planning Art and Innovation is a three-semester post-professional master studies, in collaboration with the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. Starting with July 2014, the program has duration of 18 month and is designed for both recent graduates and design professionals that hold a degree in architecture or related disciplines. Successful completion of the program leads to the academic title of Master of Science in Urban Strategies (MSc in Urban Strategies) and comprises 50 semester credit hours, which equals 90 ECTS credits.

The course is conducted by the Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program in partnership with the Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Sassari and the University of Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning. It mainly takes place in the City of Cagliari, Sardinia at the Campus of the Regional Centre for Vocational Education and Training (CRFP) were the administrative office and studio spaces are provided. Additionally the course offers joint seminars in Cagliari, Vienna and Auckland as well as a two months internship in renowned architectural firms in Auckland, New Zealand.

Parallel to the design-studio, within which students develop their own design projects, teaching is organized in the format of frontal classes, seminars, workshops, distance learning (skype), fieldtrips and workshops within the region. Classes at the campus will be mostly held in the general working hours presumably scheduled to three defined days of the week, accompanied by blocked workshop-sessions and evening reviews as part of the program´s agenda. Urban Strategies counts on engagement of the participants as the basis for successful completion of the program. However, we support students that have to make a living if this does not heavily interfere with the schedule.

As the master is funded by the Sardinian Region, Sardinian residents receive a scholarship for free participation in the course. For all others the regular Urban Strategies tuition fee applies, amounting to € 5000,- Euros per semester. Travel expenses for the joint seminars and internships are covered for all participants. The program is bound to a minimum of 15 qualified Sardinian applicants, and limited to 25 participants in total.

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Important Dates
•Application is open from now and and closes with: 10 June 2014, 12pm (GMT+2) Italy / We encourage to send the application as early as possible
•Send your digital application package per e-mail to: tpai.urban.strategies@uni-ak.ac.at
and send the original documents in hardcopy to: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Sabine Hochrieser, Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria, or deliver it in person to our Cagliari office in-between 30 March and 10 June / 9.30am and 12pm, see address below
•Applicants who are then invited to the intake colloquy will be listed in the admission section, and informed via e-mail / the date of the colloquium will be in June, and will be announced soon
•Publication of the list of accepted applicants is foreseen for June 25

Theme

The course focuses on the design of a dispersed tourist infrastructure along a north- south axis in the western part of Sardinia, combining artistic sustainable regional development with architectural strategic thinking, embracing aspects of planning and the projection of architectural, artistic innovations.

The aim of the program is to foster experiments and experiences at the fringe of planning and design, and innovation in the arts, cultural management and sustainable tourism for envisioning strategies and tools to strengthen the regional development policies. Starting from the Sardinian regional context as the main field of research, teaching will be oriented to the extension of its regional borders, to build a case study for developing a theoretical model that can be extended and applied to other regions / areas / continents.

Based on a project-oriented teaching model, that provides a strong integration of the involved disciplines, participants will engage with the respective theories and most recent digital tools to read, represent, model and interpret the built as well as the virtual environment, with its respective infrastructures and landscapes, to investigate concepts of environmental-, social-, cultural-, and economic sustainability. Accordingly the course addresses different scales of intervention, such as the local scale, continuing to the scale of the landscape, and further territorial concepts.

Spatial planning combined with small-scale interventions will be the main device to connect the strategic sectors such as:

GREEN – SUSTAINABILITY, positively responding to the most advanced standards of environmental sustainability including economical- and social-, as well as technical measures and paradigms (i.e. employment rate/smart-city/Zero CO2 emissions).

TOURISM as the economically driving engine of Sardinia, which is still an underutilized resource relative to its potential, such as increasing accessibility of the cultural and environmental heritage while at the same time improving the quality of life for local residents.

ART AND CULTURE OF INNOVATION - IDENTITY ', comparing different cultural and climatic conditions within Sardinia and beyond on national and global scale, serves an essential tool for the growth of a new generation of professionals who embrace the nested thinking between global and local realities.

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD in regard to the geographical position of Sardinia and its history, having contributed to a unique identity may give rise to culturally strategic activities stimulating sustainable tourism, especially in regard to time-based seasonal concepts of tourism.

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and its potential to creating re-virtuous economic cycles in those territories historically characterized by a certain inertia, serve as a basis to carefully take into consideration the specific local conditions, with the aim for developing novel skills to interact and communicate among the disciplinary dimensions of decision making.

Contact

TPAI - Territorial Planning Art and Innovation
Pianificazione Territoriale, progettazione e innovazione nelle Arti

Cagliari
Università di Arti Applicate Vienna
c/o Centro regionale di formazione professionale (CRFP) di Cagliari
Via Caravaggio, s.n. (Mulinu Becciu)
09121 Cagliari
Sardegna / Italia

e-mail: tpai.urban.strategies@uni-ak.ac.at
phn: +39 391 3898226
orario: Martedi dalle 9.30 alle 13.00 / Mercoledi dalle 9.30 alle 16.00

Vienna
Urban Startegies Postgraduate Program
University of Applied Arts
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

e-mail: urban.strategies@uni-ak.a.cat
phn: +43 1 71133 2336
office hours: Monday to Thursday 9:00am to 12:00pm